Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born 2 August 1941)^[1] is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh^[2] and St Andrews.^[3] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09.^[4] He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.^[5][6]

In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand.^[7] In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.^[8]

Selected publications

• Imperial Images in Persian Painting
• Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia (co-editor)
• Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author)
• Islamic Art and Architecture
• The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction
• Studies in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture (2 vols.)
• Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning (translated into Persian in 1998)

Curated Exhibition

• Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition (1977)